
Walter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. He also was a writer, lyricist, and director of several Broadway musicals. He became a theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune in 1951, then began writing theater reviews for the New York Times in 1966. He wrote for the New York Times for seventeen years. Kerr won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1978. In 1990, the old Ritz theater on West 48th Street was renamed the Walter Kerr Theatre in his honor. Kerr's books include: • How Not to Write a Play (1955) • Criticism and Censorship (1957) • Pieces at Eight (1958) • The Decline of Pleasure (1962) • The Theatre in Spite of Itself (1963) • Tragedy and Comedy (1967) • Thirty Plays Hath November (1969) • God on the Gymnasium Floor (1971) • The Silent Clowns (1975) His wife, Jean Kerr, was also a writer. Together, they wrote the musical Goldilocks (1958), which won two Tony Awards. They also collaborated on Touch and Go (1949) and King of Hearts (1954). It must be said that Kerr did not have much of an ear for music, as many of the shows he panned over his long career included the musically ambitious shows of Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein's comic opera Candide and musically ambitious West Side Story, and Frank Loesser's "musical with a lot of music" [sic. opera], The Most Happy Fella. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
A superb critical study of tragedy and comedy from their sources, masks, meanings is examined by New York Times drama critic, Walter Kerr.
A critical study of the developments, styles, techniques, and achievements of the great and lesser masters of silent screen comedy, gives special attention to the talents of Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Langdon, and Laurel and Hardy
A book that teaches the craft of playwrighting by pointing out mistakes.
Recounts Leo Tolstoy's role as the defense counsel for Private Vasili Shabunin, court marshalled for striking an officer, and its effects on Tolstoy's social thought and literary career
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The Russian Army, first published in 1944, is a journalist’s account of his experiences with the Russian Red Army in the early years of World War Two (ca. 1941-1943). Author Walter Kerr interviewed numerous Red Army officers, traveled with the troops and observed them in action against the powerful German Army. The book features descriptions of the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad, both immensely important in terms of men lost and for their effect on the eventual outcome of the war. Also described are the organization of the Russian Army ‒ its leadership, air force, cavalry, artillery, and infantry units, and how civilians took part in the massive war effort. Finally, the book examines the role of western aid (equipment, medical supplies) and Russia’s relationship with Japan. The Russian Army provides unique insight into how the Russians were able to successfully battle a ruthless, invading opponent. Illustrated with 8 pages of maps.
"Goldilocks" was first presented by The Producers Theatre as a Robert Whitehead Production at the Lunt-Fontainne Theatre, New York City, on Saturday, October 11, 1958.Cast: Elaine Stritch, Russell Nype, Don Ameche. Directed by Walter Kerr.
A compilation of theater criticism previously published in The New York Herald Tribune, The Commonweal, Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Theater Annual, and World Theater.
This is Walter Kerr's adaptation of the Washington Irving short story.
Joey wants to find love. Jake wants to help his best friend get there in one piece. What starts as a hopeful search for love becomes a journey of friendship, faith, and laughter that neither man will ever forget.From small-town Texas to the beaches of Mexico, the hills of San Francisco, and the bright lights of Las Vegas, Jake and Joey stumble through life’s lessons with humor, faith, and an unshakable friendship. Whether they’re fishing, falling in love, or just trying to stay out of trouble, their journey reminds us that true love and friendship can show up when you least expect it.Told with wit, warmth, and a storyteller’s eye for life’s simple beauty, Heart Hunter is an uplifting novel about chasing love and finding grace in the adventure.If you enjoy heartfelt stories about friendship, laughter, and the search for love, Heart Hunter will touch your heart and leave you smiling long after the last page.Click Buy Now to join the adventure today!
by Walter Kerr
by Walter Kerr
The Fifth Gabriel Richard Lecture. viii, 86 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. tall 12mo..
by Walter Kerr
by Walter Kerr
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The Order of In Use in the Diocese of Salisbury (1861) is a religious text written by Walter Kerr. This book provides a detailed description of the process and ceremony of confirmation as practiced in the Diocese of Salisbury in 1861. It includes the prayers, readings, and instructions for the bishop and candidates for confirmation. The book also provides an overview of the history and significance of the confirmation sacrament in the Anglican Church. This text is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and practice of confirmation in the Anglican Church.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Salisbury, at His Primary Visitation, in August, 1855I cannot say that the lapse of time has as yet much lessened these difficulties. It is my infirmity, and one I almost glory in, that my feelings for my Clergy are still rather those of a Brother, than of a Spiritual Father, and that I can still hardly believe that I am now occupying the seat of him whom, according to my office, I attended on a like occasion to the present just sixteen years ago, and with whose life and labours of love I have been so long trained to associate all my best hopes, under god, for the Church of my country. I need scarcely add, that the more intimate know ledge my daily ministrations have given me during the past year both of his work, and of the manner in which he effected it, has only deepened my conviction that my hopes were not those merely of an attached, admiring, and grateful friend, but such as could stand the test of a cooler, less partial, more fairly balanced judgment than mine could possibly be. It has, indeed, been to me both a very grateful and a very profitable duty to collect the evidence on which I make this statement, and I am sure that you will only be the more ready to accept and act upon any counsel I may have to give you, if I first, by way of preface to it, present you with some sketch of the results of the Ministry of our late beloved Bishop, and give you proof that I know and appreciate the principles by which those results were reached.
by Walter Kerr
Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of SalisburyThe answers to the questions which I addressed in the month of February to 'the Rural Deans and the Officiating Ministers of the Diocese have given me very many details of the state of that part of our Church of which I am the Overseer. The declarations made by the Churchwardens and Sidesmen are no less satisfactory, except in the case of those articles of visitation and inquiry which regard the morals of their fellow parishioners. In these excepted and most important particulars, the Presentments are not always, I am well aware, a full representation of all the facts of the case. But it could not, under present circumstances, have been otherwise.
by Walter Kerr
Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of Salisbury, at His Triennial Visitation, in May, 1867And here I would apply this general Truth to this particular case. The Holy Ghost, Who spoke of Christians as Prophets, Priests, and Kings, did so to express definite, pre-ordained relations in which the Members of Christ were to stand to Him their god, and has provided that there should be a discharge of the functions which His words have thus attached to the condition of Christians, and so a fulfilment in the actual life of true Christians of the account which He has inspired men to give of them.
by Walter Kerr
Digital Sheet Music of Lady in WaitingComposed by: Leroy AndersonFrom the show(s): Goldilocks
by Walter Kerr
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